This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 15th


1949 Steve Fossen (bassist, percussionist for Heart) is born.

1974 Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger is born in Alberta, Canada.

1969 Janis Joplin calls out a policeman at her concert in Tampa, Florida, when he uses a bullhorn to yell at audience members who have left their seats. "Don't F--k with those people!," she screams. "What are you so uptight about? Did you buy a $5 ticket?" The cop tells Joplin that she needs to tell the crowd to remain seated, and she replies, "I'm not telling them s--t." After more stage ranting where Joplin threatens to kick his face in, she is arrested after the show, charged with using "v*u*l*g*a*r and indecent language." After posting a $504 bail, the charges are later dropped and she pays a $200 fine.

2011 Mark "Moogy" Klingman
(keyboardist for Utopia) dies of bladder cancer in New York City, at age 61.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 15th


1971 Grand Funk Railroad release their sixth album, "E Pluribus Funk". Music critics bash it, but fans think otherwise and buy enough copies to push it to number five on the Billboard Hot 200 chart. The title of the LP is a play on the former motto of the US government, E Pluribus Unum (Out of many, one).

source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: November 15th


A few albums that was released....


1970 ● The Velvet Underground —— Loaded ► Alt. Rock

1981 ● Thin Lizzy —— Renegade ► Hard Rock

1986 ● Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble —— Live Alive ► Blues-Rock

1988 ● Kiss —— Smashes, Trashes & Hits ► Hard Rock

1993 ● Joan Jett & The Blackhearts —— Flashback ► Hard Rock

2011 ● The Rolling Stones —— Some Girls: Live In Texas ’78 ► Blues-Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: November 16th


A few albums that was released....


1970 ● Grand Funk Railroad —— Live Album ► Hard Rock

1988 ● Dokken —— Beast From The East ► Heavy Metal

1993 ● Heart —— Desire Walks On ► Album Rock

1993 ● Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers —— Greatest Hits ► Album Rock

2004 ● Genesis —— Platinum Collection ► Prog Rock

2010 ● Bruce Springsteen —— The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story ► Heartland Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 17th


1962 The Four Seasons' "Big Girls Don't Cry" reaches the top spot on the Billboard singles chart, just as their first hit, "Sherry" did earlier in the year. Songwriter Bob Crewe later said that he was inspired to write the song after he heard actor John Payne use the phase "big girls don't cry" in a 1956 movie called Slightly Scarlet. In the UK, the song reached #13.

2021 Keith Allison, a member of Paul Revere And The Raiders from 1968 to 1975, died of natural causes at the age of 79. Before joining The Raiders he played guitar and harmonica on Sonny & Cher's mega-hit "The Beat Goes On" and later recorded and performed with Roy Orbison, The Beach Boys, The Righteous Brothers, Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, Rick Nelson, The Crickets and Johnny Rivers. As an actor, Allison played Captain James J. White in Gods and Generals (2003) and showed up on episodes of Blossom, 7th Heaven and The Love Boat.

source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 17th


1979 Jethro Tull bass player John Glascock died at the age of 28, as a result of a congenital heart defect. Had also been a member of Chicken Shack.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 17th


1938 Gordon Lightfoot is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1944 Gene Clark (tambourine player, guitarist, vocalist for The Byrds) is born Harold Eugene Clark in Tipton, Missouri.

1946 Martin Barre (guitarist for Jethro Tull) is born in Kings Heath, Birmingham, England.

1947 Robert "Stewkey" Antoni (vocalist, keyboardist for The Nazz) is born in Newport, Rhode Island.

1975 Tommy Bolin's debut solo album, Teaser, is released. The album runs the gamut stylistically, and spawns the rocking title track, which Mötley Crüe covers years later.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: November 17th


A few albums that was released....


1972 ● The Moody Blues —— Seventh Sojourn ► Psychedelic Rock

1978 ● The Doors —— An American Prayer ► Blues-Rock

2009 ● Rush —— Working Men ► Prog/Art Rock

2017 ● Bob Seger —— I Knew You When ► Heartland Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 18th


2017 Australian musician and songwriter Malcolm Young died age 64. Young was best known as a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter for AC/DC. Except for a brief absence in 1988, he was with the band from its November 1973 beginning until retiring permanently in 2014. Young was born in 1953 in Glasgow before his family emigrated to Australia when he was 10. His family confirmed he was suffering from dementia in 2014.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 18th


1949 Herman Rarebell (drummer for the Scorpions) is born in Schmelz, Germany.

1950 Rudy Sarzo (bass guitarist for Quiet Riot, Whitesnake) is born Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont in Havana, Cuba, but will be raised in Florida.

1950 Graham Parker (lead singer of Graham Parker & the Rumour) is born in London, England.

1962 Kirk Hammett (lead guitarist for Metallica) is born in San Francisco, California.

1968 A group called Pogo, which includes Randy Meisner, Jim Messina and Richie Furay, debuts at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. They change their name to Poco to avoid legal action over the comic strip Pogo

1997 AC/DC release their Bon Scott tribute compilation Bonfire.


source: calendarsongfacts